Cigar-branding machine



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G. E. LE CLAIR. CIGAR BBANDING MACHINE.

No. 426,133.- Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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G. E. LE CLAIR. CIGAR BRANDING MACHINE.

No. 426,133. Patented Apr. 22. 1890.

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UNrTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. LE CLAIR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

ClGAR-BRANDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,133, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed September 26, 1889. Serial No. 325,020. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. LE CLAIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful [o eral novel features of construction and new combinations of parts, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

The invention is embodied in the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical and longitudinal section of the machine on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the machine,

showing an adjusting device on one of the gear-wheels intended for adjusting said wheels to one another for a purpose hereinafter described. Fig. 41. is an end elevation of the machine. Fig. 5 is a detached View. of a stamping-die having a stem, and showing the means of operating the same. Fig. 6 is adetached view of a feedroller and counter-impression. block.

Similar reference-letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is a suitable frame, having a top supporting the working parts of the machine.

B C are two parallel shafts journaled in suitable hangers or bearings beneath top or On one end of shaft B is provided a hand crank-wheel D, by means of which the machine is operated. On the opposite end of said shaft Bis adj ustably fixed a gear-whee1 F, and upon the end of shaft C is permanently fixed a gear-wheel E,

of same size and meshing with gear F. The ,two shafts are thus made to revolve toward each other and at the same rate of speed.

G is a stampingdie, consisting of a hollow 5 block open at the bottom, to the front side of which is removably attached a raised type plate g. The block. is provided with a stem H, which is set in suitable bearings h h, attached to the under side of the table, and in which it has longitudinal play. It lies across 011 the shaft B is fixed a double cam 11, which as the shaft revolves strikes against a shoulder-piece b on the under side of the stem II, thereby pushing the die G forward twice at each and every revolution.

I is a retracting-spring, one end of which is attached to the stem 11 and the other end to the table or frame, which withdraws the die. Thus the die is made to have areciproeating movement. A spring I is attached to the under side of the table to provide a cushion for the end of the stem H to strike against in its retreating movements, and thereby re lieve the shock.

L is a lamp sitting beneath the die-block for the purpose of heating the same.

K is a rotary feeding device consisting of two recessed disks fixed onto shaft 0, which as the shaft revolves catches and holds a cigar in the said recesses as it falls through a slot in the table, and carries it between the stamping-die and its opposite impressionplate. The said disks are provided with two of these recesses 7c 71:, and thus feed two cigars at each and every revolution. The recesses are formed with hooks at one side, which serve as stops to prevent the admission of but one cigar to the recess at a time, as seen at the Fig. 2.

M is an adjustable impression-plate set 0pposite to the stamping-die G. It consists of an angle-plate setting in the edge of the slot in the table, and is held in place by two thumb-screws m m, passed through elongated holes m m Fi 6, at the top ends of the plate.

To the impression-plate M is attached a rod N, extending out through the flange on the edge of the table-top, its outer end screwthreaded and provided with a nut bearing on outside of said flange. On the said rod N is placed a spiral spring S. The object of this rod and spring is to provide for the yielding of the impression-plate whenever a cigar of extra diameter is receiving an impression, and thereby obviate the danger of the cigar being crushed or broken. The gear-wheel F is loosely set on the shaft B, in order that it may be adjusted to conform with the movements of the feed mechanism on shaft C, To do this a crank-arm P is attached to the protruding end of shaft B and its end provided with a slot 0, through which a thumb-screw T passes and screws into the web of the Wheel.

Y is an inclined table above the ordinary top of the machine, upon which the cigars are laid, as shown, and from which they are taken one by one through the slot in the table-top at the foot of said inclined table. The cigars roll downward by their own gravity, and are thus automatically caught by the rotary feed device K.

Z is an inclined chute leading from the under side of said feeding device down to the end of the machine, onto which the cigars are dropped by the feed device after they have received the impression, and down which they roll and may be caught in a suitable receptacle.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a cigar-branding machine, the rotary feed device consisting of recessed disks K K, mounted on shaft 0, in combination with the impression-plate M and the gear F, for operating it in co-operation with the stamping mechanism, substantially as described.

2. In acigar-branding machine, the combination of a table A, parallel shaftsB O, crank- Wheel D, gear-Wheels E F, stamping-die G, provided with stem H, suitably connected and operated by cam 12 on shaft 13, the rotary feed device K, attached to shaft 0, the inclined table Y, the lamp L, and the inclined chute Z, all constructed to operate substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE E. LE CLAIR.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. W. TIBBITTS, ABNER STUTZ. 

